Walter Lynwood Fleming of Alabama (1874-1932) was a prolific historian of the Reconstruction South whose work of editing and assembling primary sources remains the first resource of any scholar of the period. Here are collected, for the first time, Fleming's best shorter writings, monographs, and se...

Walter Lynwood Fleming of Alabama (1874-1932) was a prolific historian of the Reconstruction South whose work of editing and assembling primary sources remains the first resource of any scholar of the period. Here are collected, for the first time, Fleming's best shorter writings, monographs, and selected reviews.

Included:

"Deportation and Colonization: An Attempted Solution of the Race Problem."

"'Pap' Singleton, the Moses of the Colored Exodus."

"Jefferson Davis's Camel Experiment."

"Jefferson Davis' First Marriage."

"Immigration to the Southern States."

"The Ku Klux Testimony Relating to Alabama."

"The Freedmen's Savings Bank."

"Re-Organization of the Industrial System in Alabama After the Civil War."

"The Servant Problem in a Black Belt Village."

"William Tecumseh Sherman as a College President"

"Forty Acres and a Mule"

"Ex-Slave Pension Frauds"